Situated in front of the Fiat Mirafiori office block, the Hippodrome neighbourhood was built between 1958 and 1975 and is an important example – from both the quantitative-dimensional point of view, as well as that of the results – of «consensual planning», i.e. of an urban planning agreement between the city and the area’s owners.
The first negotiations regarding this area and the moving of the existing hippodrome to make way for a residential neighbourhood started in 1956, close to the adoption of the new city plan (April 1956). They were subsequently developed over the time period that separated the adoption of the plan from its approval (October 1959): the agreement was approved by the city council in September 1958 and defined with a notary act in May 1959.
Such a «negotiated» city making procedure was one of the main forms of implementation of the plan, one that in fact often ignored the regulations set by the plan itself. The designer commissioned for the development plan
